"attempt" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- President Mikhail Gorbachev was arrested and ineffective attempts made to seize power.
- Rejects or renders ineffective the attempts of others to help him or her.
- According to Ellis, campus feminists made ineffective attempts to suppress the book.
- As such, the Chancery issued injunctions in an ineffective attempt to prevent its use.
- Though clearly all but paralyzed by depression now, she still makes a reflexive, ineffective attempt to tidy her hair.
- From time to time they were rounded up, and ineffective attempts made at dispersal.
- The company tried a similar tack with its ineffective attempts to get a toehold in the portable music player market.
- He also cited what he perceived to be ineffective attempts at public education and awareness.
- Nuclear weapons, like drugs, are doubtless bad for people, but if making them available reduces violence, is that worse than ineffective attempts to police them?
- The idea of putting warning labels on drinks packaging is a simplistic and ineffective attempt to resolve a complex issue.
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